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Shopify Joins Libra While Quitter Vodafone Advertises Bitcoin on Facebook
24.2.2020
Facebook’s coin project, Libra, continues to draw attention despite setbacks, including a shrinking pool of backers and a growing number of worried regulators. But now with JP Morgan seeing potential for the social network’s cryptocurrency and e-commerce giant Shopify joining the Libra...
Coinbase’s Ex-Policy Head Will Lobby for Facebook Amid Libra Crypto Pushback
27.8.2019
Facebook has hired a lobbying firm led by a former head of policy at Coinbase amid regulatory pushback from U.S. lawmakers over its Libra project
US House Of Representatives Expresses Doubts On Facebook’s Libra Project
28.6.2019
The ambitious cryptocurrency project of Facebook, Libra immediately got surrounded by questions on privacy soon after it disclosed its plan to launch. The director of FinCEN, Kenneth Blanco, questioned about the potential usage of Libra in money laundering, criminal financing, and other unlawful...
8 Irate Quotes From Officials Who Hate Facebook’s Digital Currency
27.6.2019
The best thing about Facebook’s proposed digital currency isn’t its BTF consensus algorithm, account-based data model or single Merkle tree structure. No, the greatest thing about Libra has to be the triggered reactions from politicians and bankers who can sense the rug being pulled...
“Libra Neither Has Block nor Chains: FT Alphaville”, Enough to Stir up a Reaction from Facebook
20.6.2019
To start with here is an excerpt from Libra’s White Paper: The Libra Blockchain is pseudonymous and allows users to hold one or more addresses that are not linked to their real-world identity. This approach is familiar to many users, developers, and regulators. The Libra Association will oversee...